The Park City Professional Artists Association is coming back to the Kimball Art Center’s Badami Gallery with this new exhibit featuring work by a variety of artists in a variety of mediums. The Park City Professional Artists Association is a group of Summit & Wasatch counties visual artists who promote and encourage professionalism, production, exhibition, education, networking, camaraderie and the growth of the visual arts of its members for the benefit of our community. Park City Creates will highlight art created in the heart of our community for the enjoyment of all.

In his large-scale loose-leafs, seemingly torn from the notebook of a distracted grade-schooler, Adam Greener explores the ways in which the youthful imagination processes the chaotic swirl of social and cultural imagery that seeks to shape, stimulate, and confine it all at once.

With this series of ink illustrations, created on handmade “notebook” sheets, he taps into his memories of his early visual preoccupations and re-presents them with a witty and subversive not-so-grown-up eye. In Greener’s vision, movie monsters cast an ominous shadow over a pop quiz; young Star Wars characters intrude upon a family portrait: All of early experience — cognitive, social, emotional — is circumscribed, for better or worse, by our cultural iconography.

In this unprecedented, gallery-wide exhibit, the Kimball Art Center will explore the history of our incessant journey to progressively master time, as well as the art and science of making and adorning timepieces.

Since the dawn of civilization, humans have created timekeeping devices of ever-increasing precision, which have had a profound impact on the framework of life and society. From the rudimentary, ancient Egyptian Shadow Clocks to the modern, ultra-accurate Atomic Clocks, this exhibition traces mankind’s unrelenting quest for excellence by creating instruments of staggering complexity and beauty – devices which marry both the disciplines of art and science.

For the first time ever, visitors will discover the expansive collection of Karol Renau’s extraordinary timepieces as well as his intimate photography of the hidden art within. Discover exceptional watches on loan from O.C. Tanner, as well as the timepiece-based jewelry of artists Krysia Renau and Stacy Sherr.

A.R.T.S. School Tours of this educational exhibit are available free of charge thanks to funding from Vail Resorts and Canyons. To schedule a free school tour, please contact artstours@kimballartcenter.org.

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Originally from Warsaw, Poland, Karol Renau has been taking pictures since the young age of six. Allowed access to a family-owned and run photography studio, Renau began to self-develop his own film at 13 or 14 years of age.

These images shown are a combination of Karol’s enthusiasm for historical and modern timepieces. He captures with his abilities the beauty developed and skill necessary by watchmakers in order to create these timeless objects. Although he has been collecting watches for the last ten years, the self-taught “fixer” only began to tinker with broken watches due to sleepless nights and probable insomnia after the launch of a company he had begun with his wife.

The first watch that Karol learned to fix, from various videos and tutorials he had found on the web, was a cheap ten-dollar, Elgin pocket watch.

It is a strategy game of sorts for Karol to further piece together material that he has amassed. He has discovered resourceful means of finding or recreating missing aspects of his timepieces. From creating replicas of parts—which has proved rather difficult—to purchasing other watches for the parts he needs, he constructs a vicious cycle for his admirable devotion, desiring to mend what he had originally obtained for parts.

In breaking down these watches, which can take the use of a microscope, Karol discovered more hidden treasures within the faces and interiors of pocket watches. Intrigued by the significant amount of detail, he began documenting the master artistry of engravings and paintings by watchmakers. These photographs displayed are images captured within the last two years.

A.R.T.S. School Tours of this educational exhibit are available free of charge thanks to funding from Vail Resorts and Canyons. To schedule a free school tour, please contact artstours@kimballartcenter.org

Come discover the history of watchmaking, fun facts about time and timepieces, a huge map exploring the world’s time zones, and video clips from watchmakers, as well as from classic films that touch on the subject of time and timepieces. There are coloring pages for children, watch parts to discover what goes into clocks and watches to make them work, and the opportunity to mark what timezone you were born in. Adults and children should come explore and participate in this interactive timepiece experience.

A.R.T.S. School Tours of this educational exhibit are available free of charge thanks to funding from Vail Resorts and Canyons. To schedule a free school tour, please contact artstours@kimballartcenter.org

The Kimball Art Center offers many educational programs to students across the state, allowing access to the visual arts. Each year through the free A.R.T.S School Tour Program the Kimball serves more than 11,000 students, and pairs the Main Gallery exhibitions with core curriculum subjects to help students experience and learn. New this year, the EVA (Elementary Visual Arts) program, in partnership with Park City Education Foundation, has allowed Park City Public Elementary Schools consistent visual arts lessons. In addition, the work of the Young Artists’ Academy, which is composed of 15 aspiring teen artists, is featured in the Badami Gallery.The Kimball Art Center also offers more than 300 art classes each year to Families, Tots, Kids, Tweens & Teens and Adults.

Students normally gaze at the work of famous artists like Matisse, Maynard Dixon, or Lego© Brick Artist, Nathan Sawaya, and dream of their chance to display their creations. Now proudly showing in the galleries are the dreams, aspirations and hopes of our local youth. The Kimball Art Center is pleased to present the annual Wasatch Back Student Art Show featuring work by student artists in Summit and Wasatch County Schools, grades K – 12. The show incorporates the theme, What Dreams Are Made Of. Each September the Kimball Art Center announces the theme for the year and students have time to create unique pieces of 2 dimen- sional and 3 dimensional art. As you look at this incredible display, remember, as Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” When you leave, remember to follow your dreams and please vote for next year’s theme at our front desk.

Dream /drēm/
noun 1. A series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person’s mind during sleep. verb 2. To contemplate the possibility of doing something or that something might be the case.